BIRTHDAY POEMS
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Birthday
(16th January 1949)
I thank whatever gods may be
For all the happiness that's mine;
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Robert Service
Your Death
You lived for a short while and then you left me alone
I was not prepared for your demise
It came with its shock
And it still shocks
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Shez Whiney
My Dream
Hear now a curious dream I dreamed last night,
Each word whereof is weighed and sifted truth.
I stood beside Euphrates while it swelled
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Christina Rossetti
Lines.
Let us make a leap, my dear,
In our love, of many a year,
And date it very far away,
On a bright clear summer day,
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Thomas Hood
My Birthday
A dozen years since in this house what commotion,
What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado;
Every soul in the family at my devotion,
When into the world I came twelve years ago.
.....
Charles Lamb
On Tea
Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has her bays;
Tea both excels, which she vouchsafes to praise.
The best of Queens, and best of herbs, we owe
To that bold nation, which the way did show
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Edmund Waller
A Sourdough Story
Hark to the Sourdough story, told at sixty below,
When the pipes are lit and we smoke and spit
Into the campfire glow.
Rugged are we and hoary, and statin' a general rule,
.....
Robert Service
Preface
A book which needs to be written is one dealing
with the childhood of authors. It would be
not only interesting, but instructive; not merely
profitable in a general way, but practical in a
.....
Hilda Conkling
The Leaf
It came with spring's soft sun and showers,
Mid bursting buds and blushing flowers;
It flourished on the same light stem,
It drank the same clear dews with them.
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Sam G. Goodrich
To May
THOUGH many suns have risen and set
Since thou, blithe May, wert born,
And Bards, who hailed thee, may forget
Thy gift, thy beauty scorn;
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William Wordsworth
Birthdays
Let us have birthdays every day,
(I had the thought while I was shaving)
Because a birthday should be gay,
And full of grace and good behaving.
.....
Robert Service
Birthdays
Let us have birthdays every day,
(I had the thought while I was shaving)
Because a birthday should be gay,
And full of grace and good behaving.
.....
Robert William Service
To My Brothers
Small, busy flames play through the fresh-laid coals,
And their faint cracklings o'er our silence creep
Like whispers of the household gods that keep
A gentle empire o'er fraternal souls.
.....
John Keats
A Birthday Gift
No gift I bring but worship, and the love
Which all must bear to lovely souls and pure,
Those lights, that, when all else is dark, endure;
Stars in the night, to lift our eyes above;
.....
Robert Fuller Murray
Sonnet On The Author's Birthday
SING on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough,
Sing on, sweet bird, I listen to thy strain,
See aged Winter, 'mid his surly reign,
At thy blythe carol, clears his furrowed brow.
.....
Robert Burns
The Convent Threshold
There's blood between us, love, my love,
There's father's blood, there's brother's blood;
And blood's a bar I cannot pass.
I choose the stairs that mount above,
.....
Christina Rossetti
Punctuality
Man Naturally loves delay,
And to procrastinate;
Business put off from day to day
Is always done to late.
.....
Lewis Carroll
Birthday Verses
Good morrow to the golden morning,
Good morrow to the world's delightâ??
I've come to bless thy life's beginning,
Since it makes my own so bright!
.....
Thomas Hood
Queen Of June
If June can talk
It would talk about a princess
Which as the beauty of a Snow white
Her voice so cool and claim as the midnight moon
.....
Afe Tosin Shola
The Well-dressed Children
Here's flowery taffeta for Mary's new gown:
Here's black velvet, all the rage, for Dick's birthday coat.
Pearly buttons for you, Mary, all the way down,
Lace ruffles, Dick, for you; you'll be a man of note.
.....
Robert Graves
A Birthday
Fifteen years have come and gone,
Maiden since thy large, brown eyes
Opened first and looked upon
Wintry English skies.
.....
Arthur Weir
The Library
When the sad soul, by care and grief oppress'd,
Looks round the world, but looks in vain for rest;
When every object that appears in view
Partakes her gloom and seems dejected too;
.....
George Crabbe
Past And Present
I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
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Thomas Hood
Albert's Return
You've `eard `ow young Albert Ramsbottom
At the zoo up at Blackpool one year
With a stick with an `orse's `ead `andle
Gave a lion a poke in the ear?
.....
Marriott Edgar
The Hamadryad
RHAICOS was born amid the hills wherefrom
Gnidos the light of Caria is discernâ??d
And small are the white-crested that play near,
And smaller onward are the purple waves.
.....
Walter Savage Landor
Birthdays
Next birthday
I am thirty-six,
& formed (for all intents
& purposes)
.....
Erica Jong